Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Seeded X-ray free-electron laser generating radiation with laser statistical properties

  • Oleg Yu. Gorobtsov,
  • Giuseppe Mercurio,
  • Flavio Capotondi,
  • Petr Skopintsev,
  • Sergey Lazarev,
  • Ivan A. Zaluzhnyy,
  • Miltcho B. Danailov,
  • Martina Dell’Angela,
  • Michele Manfredda,
  • Emanuele Pedersoli,
  • Luca Giannessi,
  • Maya Kiskinova,
  • Kevin C. Prince,
  • Wilfried Wurth,
  • Ivan A. Vartanyants

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06743-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Free electron lasers are emerging as important tools for nonlinear spectroscopy in the X-ray regime. Here the authors demonstrate the second order coherence of a seeded FEL source that may be useful for measurements in quantum optics.